cabaret style seating
Thu, 13 Oct 2011, 07:45 amGordon the Optom11 posts in thread
cabaret style seating
Thu, 13 Oct 2011, 07:45 amI was looking forward to seeing ‘Educating Rita’ at the Koorliny Centre, until I went to book on-line and found out the seating arrangements. It is cabaret style, which I don’t like under any circumstances. Koorliny had this for their recent short plays season, which wasn’t too bad, but for a proper full length, quality play what has possessed the organisers to have the whole audience sitting sideways to the stage? About a third will also have their backs to the actors.
A table in the centre of the chairs usually means that there will be drinks clinking, packets of crisps crackling away and not to mention other home prepared goodies that will stink the place out.
Sorry but I think I may very regrettably give this show a miss.
Sense prevails!
Sun, 16 Oct 2011, 03:02 pmThat's probably a good call- as there are only two actors on the stage at any given time, the (shifting) dynamic between them requires significant audience attention...
Intimate schmintimate; it's a play, not a revue. Picasso at the Lapin Agile got away with a cabaret seating format (just!) because of the play's setting and the venue it was performed in.
Good call, Koorliny folks.
El